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Everybody in the world knows her name, Lady Gaga isn’t your ordinary popstar, in fact in most of her ‘artsy’ videos you see the singer wearing very little which is also a portrayal of her style in day to day life. We all know Lady Gaga likes to put on a performance but the latest news to come out was actually quite shocking and in poor taste…

It has emerged that ‘Do What U Want’ the second single from new album Art Pop featuring R Kelly was banned for glamorising rape, throughout the clip the singer is naked which comes to no surprise. R Kelly who plays a doctor is shown to reach under the operating sheet covering her whilst before she passes out. He also states “I’m putting you under, and when you wake up, you’re going to be pregnant.” if that isn’t glamorising rape then I don’t know what is.

Other controversial factors of this collaboration is the fact that Lady Gaga collaborated with R Kelly who was acquitted of Child Pornography charges in 2008 and for the video to be directed by Terry Richardson a photographer who has received many complaints by models stating his inappropriate sexual behaviour towards them. The photographer directed the video Wrecking Ball for Miley Cyrus as well as photographing her and the likes of Kate Moss.

The lyrics ‘You can’t have my heart, and you won’t use my mind but do what you want with my body’ clearly back up the accusations of rape being glamorised. Although the lyrics in my opinion are quite poor and I don’t personally like the song it still managed to reach No.1 in the UK.

Do you think rape was glamorised here?

Although her popularity may be declining the controversy surrounding her now might bring Lady Gaga back into the limelight, she’ll just have to be more careful when selecting ‘artsy’ projects.